Leads should be able to convert to contacts and organizations apart from converting to deals because

Shriram S

Leads should be able to convert to contacts and organizations apart from converting to deals because, very often, leads will be influencers and conduits and will be decisive in bringing more deals

Inês Batata

Hi @Shriram S !

When you convert a Lead to a Deal, the Person and/or Organization attached to the lead also get converted to a Contact that will then show up in your Contacts list. 🙂

Shriram S

@Inês Batata Not all leads need to be converted to deals. They can just remain contacts or organizations. That was the reason for my poll.

Juan Leal

Yea exactly-- What if the Leads say-- hey we not ready but maybe next year. Not going to keep a DOA Deal on your pipeline. For this reason i haven't bothered with the Lead section.

Shriram S

@Juan Leal But leads section have a great potential! Just 1 or 2 functionalities to be added and they will complete the sales cycle tools!

Inês Batata

@Shriram S Thank you for clarifying, I see what you mean now. I've taken your suggestion and made sure it reached our team for consideration.

Shriram S

@Inês Batata thank you. Hope the update can be effected by the team as well.

Juan Leal

Any news on this?-- its sounds so simple- allow us to convert the lead to a contact.

Inês Batata

@Juan Leal Leads can only still be converted to Deals at the moment, but now all Leads must be linked to a contact, see this post: https://community.pipedrive.com/post/leads-inbox-improvements-for-users-in-all-plans-5f5207ea42e5de146e1c72e1


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Chris Wright

Leads are more likely to convert to contacts supporting existing deals than to create new deals - I would love the functionality to convert leads to contacts. Thanks

Amit Sarda - Pipedrive Consultant - AmitSarda.xyz

The only thing I like about Zendesk Sell is how they have implemented the Leads to Deal/Contact/Organization conversion. It's worth a look and would work a lot better than the Leads functionality in Pipedrive today.

As of today, there is no reason why I can simply create a separate pipeline for Leads under Deals and achieve the same functionality.